A local sheriff described the “horrific” aftermath of the Texas church massacre Sunday, saying the chapel was filled with bloody bodies when authorities arrived.

“Wherever you walked in the church, it was death,” Wilson County Sheriff Joe D. Tackitt told the Houston Chronicle.

“It was just horrific,” he continued. “Words can’t express what was there. It’s hard enough to see adults, but when you see babies, little ones, I’m talking 3, 4, 5, 6 years old. 10 years old. It’s just hard.”